Understanding by Design

ASCD Bestseller! Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.

How have you learnt when students take into account? Are you able to design learning experiences that make it a lot more likely that students take into account content and apply it in meaningful ways?

Thousands of educators have used the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to reply to these questions and create more rigorous, engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded 2nd edition offers you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:

* An improved template for creating curriculum units according to the breakthrough “backward design” method.
* More specific guidelines on how to frame the “big ideas” you wish to have students to take into account.
* Better how you can develop the “essential questions” that form the foundation of high-quality curriculum and assessment.
* An expanded toolbox of instructional approaches for obtaining the desired results of a lesson.
* More examples, across all grade levels and subjects, of how schools and districts have used the UbD framework to maximize student understanding.

Educators from kindergarten through college can get the whole thing they need—guidelines, stages, templates, and tips—to start designing lessons, units, and courses that lead to improved student performance and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.